Re: [Gnumed-devel] Request For Comment

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 04:56:44PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

>> Is it realistic to assume that someone who has trouble
>> knowing "0.5" to mean "one half" will be OK with "1/2" (in
>> proper superscript / subscript format) to mean "one half" ?
>
> I think some patients might understand 1/2 properly formatted, when they 
> might not have understood 0.5, however the fraction has its own  
> down-sides of usually-smaller font and therefore more poorly readable.
True enough as can be seen in the wiki. It might make sense
to be able to select the scaling of the printout.

Is there any need other than for one-half or one-quarter ?

Karsten
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